Education Challenges
Education plays a vital role in human capital formation. It raises the
productivity and efficiency of individuals and thus produces skilled manpower
that is capable of leading the economy towards the path of sustainable economic
development.
The situation in Pakistan, like many other developing countries, is not very
encouraging. The low enrolment rates at the primary level, wide disparities
between regions and gender, lack of trained teachers, deficiency of proper
teaching materials and poor physical infrastructure of schools indicate the poor
performance of this sector.
Middle class go to a bit more affordable private institutes and the poor ones
are left behind who then join the government institutes, with poor educational
faculties.
The outcome of this class difference is that English medium schools students
learn least about Islam but they gather a sound knowledge of outside world.
Apart from the above mentioned educational systems, another system is also being
run i.e. seminary system imparting children solely with religious education and
no emphasis on modern studies, producing a generation that knows well about
religion but is deprived of essential modern education.
As the medium of education offered by all institutes is not the same, it leads
to conflicts among the classes and sense of deprivation especially among the
poor ones. This continues at higher education level as well, e.g. LUMS, IBA,
GIKI etc these institutions are meant for the elite class, developing social
class differences between the students of lower class institutes who might have
better abilities and caliber than the students of these institutes, but their
intelligence goes neglected, resulting in a waste of talent that could bring
Pakistan to the best of its Success and development.
Moreover the examination system is nor fair and just. Corruption and bigotry
prevail our education system at all levels, if you have contacts and resources
you can climb up to as high a level of success as you desire, it is the poor and
middle class that suffers always, and the Government seems to have turned deaf
ear to the wimping of these deprived people.
The education status in Pakistan is not unstable since its establishment. The
biggest reason why Pakistan’s lagging far behind many countries that were
founded somewhere near the era in which Pakistan was formed, is its low literacy
rate, i.e. poor education system.
Literacy rate of Pakistan is almost around 50% where the essentials for being
termed an educated person are that you are able of reading and writing (34%
aprox). Which is not a good sign, with a result that more than half of the
literate ones are also not educated in a
completely proper way?
Education teaches one the way of spending a good life, it teaches one the
etiquettes, the proper manners, and civilities to live an honorable life. It
changes a person’s mindset and makes him more flexible and poised in his
attitude towards various aspects of life.
As Most of the Pakistanis are deprived of their very basic right of getting
educated they never become independent and are exploited and influenced by the
educated ones, this creates great disparities in social classes.
Corruption, feudalism, living on Loans, etc these are all the problems that
arise as a result of poor education, hence, the people fail to elect correct
people for the government and suffer whole their lives because the mindset
cannot be altered except only with education So, it’s a dire need of the
debilitating education-health status of the state that proper education system
be implemented so that a just even social, economic and political system would
be ensured. And soon shall Pakistan make its way to the soaring heights of
Progress and development.